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...summer with blockbuster sequel products," notes Martin Grove, film analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, "which virtually guarantees that the early summer business will be strong." Lethal Weapon 3 leads the assault this weekend, , followed quickly by Alien 3 (May 22), the Red October sequel, Patriot Games (June 5) and Batman Returns (June 19), the last easily the season's most anticipated and expensive movie...
...extremely daring work. The percentage of the modern movie audience that knows and values such an antique and, even in its day, exotic film tradition is minuscule. What does the rest of the audience care that it exerts a continuing influence on films noirs and, for that matter, on Batman? For those people, Allen has recruited an astonishing cast, from Madonna to John Malkovich, from Jodie Foster to John Cusack, and they ground their symbolic characters in a recognizable reality...
...game's last few, beautifully tense minutes in the dugout. Only then, as he watched reliever Alejandro Pena flirt with catastrophe, did Avery look his age and less. Shivering under a black coverall in the Halloween weather, he peeked out like an anxious trick- or-treater in a Batman cape...
...heart Other People's Money is a simple morality piece, a clash of good and evil told in financial jargon. The only problem with Sterner's play is that it suffers from the Batman syndrome--as in Tim Burton's movie, the evil character has the best dialogue and so enjoys his wicked doings that the audience cannot help being drawn to him. Though Cain does his best to flesh out the "good-guy" model written for him, Jorgenson still resembles Wilford Brimley in a Quaker Oats commercial--he wants to preserve his company because "it's the right thing...
...January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that he had turned down Beatty's subsequent project, Bugsy. And he urged his minions...